Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
4 Kreuzers - Beda Angehrn
| Issuer | Abbey of Saint Gall |
|---|---|
| Year | 1780-1782 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | 2.16 g |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | *MON.PRINCIPAL.TERRIT.S.GALLI |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The Abbey of Saint Gall exercised temporal authority over its surrounding territories well into the late eighteenth century, minting its own coinage as a sovereign ecclesiastical prince. Beda Angehrn, who served as Prince-Abbot from 1767 until the abbey's secularization in 1805, oversaw one of its final active minting periods. The billon composition reflects the chronic silver shortage that plagued small German and Swiss states throughout this decade, forcing ecclesiastical mints toward debased alloys simply to keep fractional currency in circulation.
Production ceased by 1782 — fewer than three years of output before the dies were retired.